Strange winds reveal strongest hints yet of magnetic activity in exoplanets
Press Release 2 June 2026 A team of astronomers has found the strongest evidence yet that some planets…
Astronauts could use lightning-like plasma jets to kill germs on the moon and Mars, demo hints
As astronauts prepare for long-duration missions to the moon and Mars, sustaining human life far from Earth will…
Shockwaves from dying stars may sculpt ‘cosmic wagon wheel’ stellar nurseries, simulations reveal
Some of the galaxy’s most spectacular stellar nurseries resemble giant cosmic wagon wheels, with spoke-like structures that scientists…
Scientists listen to the ‘heart’ of our Sun – and find mysterious behaviour
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How do you study an invisible exoplanet? Astronomers discover planetary ‘fingerprints’ in the rings around stars
How do you weigh a planet you can’t see from many light-years away? Astronomers may have the answer…
When Rosetta sniffed the gas around Comet 67P, it found a cloud that would have smelled of rotten eggs, ammonia and bitter almonds — and hidden in that cosmic stink were some of the chemical ingredients that may have helped life begin on Earth
Between 2014 and 2016, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft flew alongside Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and analysed the gas…
NASA Invites Media to See Roman Space Telescope Arrive at Kennedy
Registration is open for media to cover the arrival of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope at the…
British Paralympian could be first astronaut with physical disability to live in orbit | European Space Agency
A British Paralympian and surgeon could become the first person with a physical disability to live in orbit…
APOD: 2026 June 2 – The Vela Supernova Remnant
APOD: 2026 June 2 – The Vela Supernova Remnant Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or…
SpaceX to test Starfall vehicle for space manufacturing, cargo return
SpaceX will soon test reentry vehicles that could enable in-space manufacturing and rapid point-to-point cargo delivery, according to…
Mars was once a warmer world of rivers, lakes and a thicker atmosphere, but after its internal dynamo died and the planet lost the magnetic shield that helps protect an atmosphere, the solar wind stripped much of its air away over billions of years, leaving the cold desert we see today
The familiar version goes like this. Early Mars was a warmer world with rivers and lakes and a…
Jupiter’s largest moon may still be building its core
In 1996, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft flew past Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon and the largest moon in the Solar…